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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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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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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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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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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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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