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 focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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