A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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