Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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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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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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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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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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