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A digital excavation of the future we were promised. Dive into the archives of tech optimism to see the inventions that almost changed the world.
★There are more than 1,000 chemicals in a cup of coffee.★Humans blink about 15 to 20 times per minute.★A day on Jupiter lasts only about 10 hours.★Honey never spoils. Archaeologists found 3000-year-old honey in Egyptian tombs that was still edible.★Dragonflies have been around for about 300 million years.★Octopuses have three hearts and blue blood.★Cats can't taste sweetness.★Sloths only poop about once a week.★Bees can recognize individual human faces.★Humans share 60% of their DNA with bananas.★Wombat poop is cube-shaped.★So far, two diseases have successfully been eradicated: smallpox and rinderpest.★A 'jiffy' is one trillionth of a second in physics.★Sea otters hold hands while sleeping so they don't drift apart.★More than half of all people alive today have never made a phone call.★Ostriches can run faster than horses.★There are only two countries in the world whose names start with 'The': The Gambia and The Bahamas.★Sharks existed on Earth before trees did.★Pineapples take about two years to grow.★Peanuts aren't nuts, they are legumes.
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