Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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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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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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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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