Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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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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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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