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Fact Bees understand the concept of zero A concept that took human mathematics thousands of years to formalise. 1 min read Fact Cleopatra lived closer to the Moon landing than to the pyramids The Great Pyramid was already ancient history to her. 1 min read Fact Footprints on the Moon will outlast most things on Earth No wind, no rain. They will be legible for millions of years. 1 min read Fact Crows remember faces and tell their friends Researchers wore masks. Years later, birds that were never captured still scolded the mask. 1 min read Fact Woolly mammoths were still alive when the pyramids were built A surviving population on a Siberian island outlasted them by centuries. 1 min read Fact Earth’s core is roughly as hot as the surface of the Sun About 5,400 degrees Celsius, a few thousand kilometres beneath your feet. 1 min read Fact A Greenland shark can be older than the United States One studied individual was estimated at close to 400 years. 1 min read Fact Oxford University is older than the Aztec Empire Teaching began there roughly two centuries before Tenochtitlan was founded. 1 min read Fact The Amazon is fertilised by dust from the Sahara Millions of tonnes a year, blown across an ocean. 1 min read Fact Wombats produce cube-shaped droppings Not moulded on the way out. Shaped by uneven stretching inside the intestine. 1 min read