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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The largest breed of rabbit is the Flemish Giant.
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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