Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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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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Your thumb is about the same size as your nose.
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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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In 2011, archaeologists discovered the skeletal remains of a Roman couple who have been holding hands for 1,500 years.
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