1. A 1 minute kiss burns 26 calories.
2. Time is the Fourth Dimension.
The first three dimensions specify an object's location/movement in space (forwards/backwards/left/right), whereas the fourth locates its position in time.
3. Since the first episode of the Simpsons (1989), Fox has ran and cancelled over 300 shows. 
4. Within the next two minutes, humanity will take more photos than were took in all of the 1800s. 
5. Up until the 1800s, every town/village had their own little timezone with clocks that were synchronized to the local solar noon.
6. Gravity affects the flow of time and it's been proven that the closer an observer is to a source of gravity (i.e. the Earth), the slower time moves (for example, time moves faster on the top of Mount Everest than it does in your kitchen).
7. All of the clocks in the movie Pulp Fiction are fixed to the time 4:20.
8. The average American city commuter loses 38 hours a year to traffic jams.
9. On Mercury, a day is two years long.
10. According to Einstein's Theory of Relativity, time as we know it didn't always exist because time begins with the Big Bang around 13.7 billion years ago.
Because time and space are connected, you cannot have time without motion or objects moving through space.
11. Will Smith is now older than Uncle Phil was when Fresh Prince of Bel Air began.
12. Daylight Savings Time began as a joke by Benjamin Franklin, who decided it would be a good idea to wake people up earlier on summer mornings so they may get more work done during the day and therefore use less candles.
DST was introduced to the UK in 1917 and then spread around the world.
13. The Earth is struck by lightning over 100 times every second.
14. Railways are what forced Standardized Time to be created. Known as "railway time" initially, the separate village time zones caused havoc thus Standard Time was born.
15. There is a 4.4 billion year old zircon (crystal) that's found in Jack Hills, Australia. It's the oldest object on the planet.
16. There was more of a time gap between the Stegosaurus and and the Tyrannosauras Rex than between the T-Rex and humans.
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