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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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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