[World fact 1] If the history of the universe was condensed into a year, the Milky Way would form on May 15, life on earth would appear on September 21, and the dinosaurs would go extinct on December 30. Modern humans would evolve on December 31 at 11:52 PM and Columbus would discover America at 11:59:58 PM.
[World fact 2] Mexico’s presidential palace is 14 times larger than the White House and opened its doors to visitors for the first time in 2018
[World fact 3] Concorde flew so high that passengers received twice the dose of radiation than flying in a conventional aircraft, which was believed to increase cancer risk. The flight deck had a radiometer so that they could descend in case of a solar storm.
[World fact 4] West African mountain range named the Mountains of Kong was charted on maps for nearly a hundred years. It was later discovered that the mountains never existed and were made up by the original cartographer.
[World fact 5] 70,000 years ago, a nomadic star came within 1 light-year of the Sun. Research suggests this close pass by Scholz’s star sent dozens of comets and asteroids tumbling out of the solar system.
[World fact 6] The earth's center is 2.5 years younger than the outside as a result of gravitational time dilation.
[World fact 7] Mitochondria are believed to be evolved from specialized bacteria that merged with our cell’s cytoplasm 1.5 billion years ago. This explains why it contains its own DNA.
[World fact 8] There is an octopus species (Graneledone boreopacifica) that cares for her eggs for 53 months, apparently not eating during this time, then dies. This brooding period is the longest known for any animal.
[World fact 9] During the Cold War, Great Britain had so much trouble trying to develop a fusion bomb (H-Bomb), that they "faked it" by building and testing an extremely large fission bomb and let the world believe that it was a small H-bomb.
[World fact 10] Humans were once an endangered species. About 1.2 million years ago, at a time when our ancestors were spreading through Africa, Europe, and Asia, there were probably only around 18,500 individuals capable of breeding. Humans faced another population bottleneck where the human population was reduced to less than 1000 people total around 70,000 years ago due to a supervolcano explosion in Indonesia that triggered a nuclear winter.
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