A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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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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