Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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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 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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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