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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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