If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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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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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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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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