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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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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