There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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