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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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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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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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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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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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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