The Shannon Number estimates there are 10^120 possible chess games — vastly more than the estimated 10^80 atoms in the universe.
Nintendo was founded on September 23, 1889 — originally as a playing card company, over 45 years before television was invented.
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Sharks have existed for approximately 450 million years. Trees evolved only about 350 million years ago — 100 million years after sharks.
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The Great Pyramid was built around 2560 BC. Cleopatra lived around 30 BC. The Moon landing was 1969 AD — Cleopatra is closer to us than to the pyramids.
The human eye contains approximately 6 million cone cells capable of distinguishing roughly 10 million distinct color shades.
Over a lifetime, the average person produces between 25,000–50,000 liters of saliva — enough to fill two large swimming pools.
The word 'jiffy' is a real scientific measurement — 1/100th of a second in computing or 3×10⁻²⁴ seconds in physics.
Oxford University began teaching in 1096 — over 300 years before the Aztec Empire was founded in 1428.
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Archaeologists have discovered 3,000-year-old honey in ancient Egyptian tombs that was still perfectly edible.
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Venus rotates so slowly that its day (243 Earth days) is longer than its year (225 Earth days) around the Sun.