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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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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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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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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The largest breed of rabbit is the Flemish Giant.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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