Modern humans first appeared about 200,000 years ago, but record keeping didn't begin until about 6,000 years ago. That means about 97% of human history is lost.
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When Charles Darwin first discovered the Galapagos Tortoises, he tried to ride them!
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The word 'mile' is derived from the Latin word for 1,000 - the number of paces it took the average Roman!
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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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