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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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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