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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Leonardo Da Vinci loved animals so much that he used to buy caged animals at the market just to set them free.
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Ancient Greeks believed that redheads turned into vampires after they died.
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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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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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