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Sequoias can live for over three thousand years.
The tree known as Methuselah, in California, is over four thousand eight hundred years old, making it one of the…
The pressure at the bottom of the Mariana Trench is one thousand times greater than at the surface.
At a depth of about eleven thousand meters, the pressure reaches over one thousand atmospheres, equivalent to having…
Jupiter's Great Red Spot is a storm that has lasted for centuries.
This anticyclonic storm has been observed since the seventeenth century and is larger than Earth, with winds reaching…
The World Wide Web was invented at CERN.
Tim Berners-Lee created the web in 1989 to facilitate information sharing among scientists at the European…
Tardigrades can survive in the vacuum of space.
These microscopic animals can withstand extreme temperatures, intense radiation and even the vacuum of space…
The strongest muscle in the human body is the masseter.
Located in the jaw, this muscle can exert a force of over seventy kilograms on the molar teeth.
There is snow at the Earth's equator.
The Cayambe volcano, in Ecuador, has perpetual snow at its summit despite being exactly on the equator line.
The world's largest flower can measure over one meter.
The Rafflesia arnoldii, found in Indonesian forests, can reach one meter in diameter and weigh over ten kilograms.
Io, a moon of Jupiter, is the most volcanically active body in the solar system.
With over four hundred active volcanoes, its eruptions can eject material hundreds of kilometers high.
The first computer password was created in 1961.
MIT's CTSS system was the first to implement passwords to protect user accounts on the same computer.
A quarter of the human body's bones are in the feet.
Each foot contains twenty-six bones, meaning both feet together account for about twenty-five percent of the entire…
Some bamboo species can grow almost a meter per day.
Under ideal conditions, bamboo reaches growth speeds of up to ninety-one centimeters in twenty-four hours, making it…
Butterflies taste things with their feet.
The taste receptors of these insects are located on their legs, allowing them to know if a plant is suitable for…
Human blood vessels could circle the world.
If we stretched out all the arteries, veins, and capillaries of an adult, they would reach about one hundred thousand…
The cashew we eat is actually the plant's stem.
The true fruit of the cashew tree is the nut that grows on the outside, at the end of the swollen and juicy stem that…
The shortest reign in history lasted only twenty minutes.
Louis XIX of France was technically king in 1830 between the time his father abdicated and the time he himself signed…
It rains diamonds on Jupiter and Saturn.
Storms turn methane into carbon soot, which as it falls hardens under the extreme pressure of the atmosphere, turning…
There is a known planet composed mostly of diamond.
The exoplanet 55 Cancri e has a carbon-rich interior which, due to extreme heat and pressure, likely exists in the…
The human liver can regenerate even if it loses a large part.
It is the only internal organ capable of natural regeneration, able to recover its original size and function even…
The Great Wall of China is not a continuous structure.
It is actually a network of walls, trenches, and natural barriers built over several centuries by different…
The world's largest flower smells like rotting meat.
The Rafflesia arnoldii emits this foul odor to attract flies and carrion beetles, which are its main pollinators in…
Liquid helium can climb up the walls of its container.
At temperatures near absolute zero, helium becomes a superfluid, losing all viscosity and managing to escape from…
The first one-gigabyte hard drive weighed over two hundred kilos.
Released by IBM in 1980, the 3380 model was the size of a refrigerator and required special equipment just to be…
Koala fingerprints are almost identical to human ones.
They are so similar that, on past occasions, forensic experts have confused koala prints with those of human suspects…