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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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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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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Your body is creating and killing about 2.4 million red blood cells per second.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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