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 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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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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The average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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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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