Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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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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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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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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