The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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