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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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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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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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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