There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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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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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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The largest breed of rabbit is the Flemish Giant.
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