Random Fascinating Facts

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    It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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    The strangers in your dreams are actually people that you've seen in real life.
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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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    There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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    Derinkuyu Underground City
    Derinkuyu Underground City
    In 1963, a man found a mysterious room behind a wall in his home that lead to a huge underground city that once housed up to 20,000 people, complete with schools, livestock pens, and food stores, dating back over a millennium.
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    The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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    A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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    Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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