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Over Venezuela, Catatumbo lightning flickers almost every night of the year

8 of the fastest animals on the planet

9 of the most spectacular waterfalls on Earth

Goosebumps are a leftover reflex from ancestors who fluffed up their fur

The eye’s cornea has no blood supply and pulls oxygen straight from the air

Your body carries roughly as many bacterial cells as human ones

The Sun burns off about four million tons of its own mass every second

Mars is home to Olympus Mons, a volcano nearly three times the height of Everest

A single day on Venus lasts longer than a whole year on the planet

A teaspoon of neutron-star matter would weigh about a billion tons on Earth

The Uffington White Horse has been scoured back into a hillside for 3,000 years

Costa Rica’s stone spheres were carved almost perfectly round, and no one knows why

The Plain of Jars in Laos is strewn with giant stone vessels of unknown purpose

Cahokia was once a city on the Mississippi bigger than the London of its day

Angkor Wat is the largest religious monument ever raised by human hands

Newgrange in Ireland is older than the pyramids and lights up at the winter solstice

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