Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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