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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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