An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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Carrots were originally purple. The dutch monarch planted carrot seeds together until the carrots grew orange to match their royal color - The House of Orange. Orange carrots were a symbol of prestige.
13
A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
140
If you arrange the first letters of the names of the main characters in Inception, you would get DREAMS.
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Mackinac Island, Michigan, has banned cars since 1898!
4
Two in five people in the world marry their first love.
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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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