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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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