Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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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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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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