Random Fascinating Facts

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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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    Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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    Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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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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    Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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    1865 Canned Food, Still Safe to Eat
    1865 Canned Food, Still Safe to Eat
    In 1974, canned food from a boat that sank in 1865 was tested by chemists and was found to be still safe to eat.
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