A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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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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If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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