Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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