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• [World fact 1]  Mill Ends Park is a planter of flowers in a median strip in Portland, Oregon. While only 452 square inches (0.292 meters square), it has been recognized as the 'Smallest Park in the World' by Guinness, and the original caretaker described it as “the only leprechaun colony west of Ireland.”

  Travel, World source

• [World fact 2]  75% of the world's food is generated from only 12 plants and 5 animal species.

  Food, World source

• [World fact 3]  Przewalski's horses are the only wild horses left in the world. The "wild" horses that abound in Australia and North America's western plains and East Coast barrier islands are actually feral domestic horses that escaped from ranches and farms and returned to the wild. 

  Animals, World source

• [World fact 4]  In the last 5 millennia, genetic change in humans has occurred at a rate roughly 100 times higher than any other period of human evolution. Humans today are more genetically different from humans living 5,000 years ago than these people were from humans living 40,000 years ago.

  History, World source

• [World fact 5]  The closest the world came to full-scale nuclear war was not during Cuban Missile Crisis or even the during Cold War, but instead, it was when a scientific rocket was mistaken as an American ICBM in 1995.

  Countries, War, Weapons, World source

• [World fact 6]  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.

  People, World source

• [World fact 7]  The Earth is currently and has been in an ice age for over 30 million years, the Late Cenozoic Ice Age.

  History, World source

• [World fact 8]  The coldest temperature ever recorded in the known universe was in Massachusetts, MIT, where scientists attained temperatures 810 trillionths of a degree Fahrenheit above the absolute zero (-459.67°F).

  Places, Space, World source

• [World fact 9]  The Chicxulub Impact, the asteroid that killed off the dinosaurs, created a mega-tsunami that was over 330 feet tall. If the impact had struck the deep ocean rather than the shallow seas, the wave would have peaked at 2.9 miles.

  Disaster, World source

• [World fact 10]  People of the Middle Ages widely accepted that the Earth was spherical. The notion that they thought the world was flat is actually a misconception.

  People, World source

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