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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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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The oldest glowing lightbulb was first switched on in 1901 and lives in fire stations in Livermore, CA. It is known as the Centennial Light.
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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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