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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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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The Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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