It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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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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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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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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