There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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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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Not only are there rogue planets floating through space completely alone, not orbiting any stars, but it’s possible that these pitch-black lonely planets support life.
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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 average person in their lifetime will spend an estimated 20,160 minutes kissing!
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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