The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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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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