There is enough energy in one bolt of lightning to power a home for two weeks!
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More people in Africa speak French than in France itself.
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In 1943, a Pan Am Airline chef snuck whiskey into passengers' coffee to warm them up on a winter flight. When asked what kind of coffee they were being served, he improvised "Irish Coffee," creating the now-famous cocktail.
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At the time of your birth, you were, for a few seconds, the youngest person on the planet.
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Ming-Na Wen, who portrays The Cavalry on Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., was also the voice of Mulan. And she’s 50 years old.
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Sifrhippus was a species of horse about the size of an average duck and roamed North America 56 million years ago.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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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