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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No one knows Albert Einstein's last words. Just before he passed, he spoke several words in German, but his nurse only knew English.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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The Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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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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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