If aliens located 60-65 million light years away from us, looked at earth through a really powerful telescope today, they would see dinosaurs!
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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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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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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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