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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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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The Lion's Mane Jellyfish is the largest jellyfish in the world. They have been swimming in arctic waters since before the dinosaurs (over 650 million years ago).
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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 University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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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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