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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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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