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About the Great California flood of 1862 - which submerged Sacramento under 10 feet of water and turned California’s Central Valley into a vast inland sea spanning 300 miles long, 20 miles wide and 30 feet deep. It killed thousands, bankrupted the state and historically happens every 200 years.
Ants make up 15% of all terrestrial animal biomass, and there are 10 thousand trillion ants on the planet
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In 1945, 900 Japanese soldiers were forced to retreat through 10 miles of mangrove swamp, during which hundreds were to be eaten by the thousands of saltwater crocodiles lying wait, in what is listed in the Guiness Book of World Records as the "Worst crocodile disaster in the world".
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The Amazon Rainforest area originally had terrible farming soil, until indigenous people invented a "superdirt" which remains fertile for thousands of years, renews and propagates by itself, and may currently cover as much as 10% of the Amazon basin.
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Roman persecutions didn't kill as many Christians as many people assume -- "no more than a few thousand" over three centuries. Contrast that with the up to 10,000 Christians killed by their Christian brothers in the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in the 1572.
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Beanie Babies, at the height of their popularity, accounted for 10% of eBay traffic and some collectors insured their purchases for thousands of dollars.
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After a Southern Confederacy lost the Civil war, 10 to 20 thousand of them fled the country and established a colony in Brazil.
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While 1500 people died on the Titanic, it isn't the worst maritime disaster in history. Almost 10 thousand people died when a German military transport ship was sunk by a Soviet submarine in 1945
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The average scalp has 100-150 thousand hairs. Hair is so strong that if you made all of your hair into a rope, it could hold 10-15 tons...
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There is an extinct genus of ape, Gigantopithecus blacki, which stood up to 3 metres(10 feet) tall, weighed as much as 540 kg and have actually been contemporary with modern humans for tens of thousands of years.
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Kobuk River Valley has been an important caribou migration crossing for as long as 10,000 years. The caribou that pass through have been hunted to provide food, clothing, and other items important for survival of the people in the area for thousands of years.
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The oldest calendar is in Scotland and pre-dates the ones found in the Middle East by thousands of years. It's nearly 10,000 years old.
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One of the oldest and largest coral reef on the planet is Great Barrier Reef in Australia. It was created 5 to 10 thousand years ago. It occupies 2600 miles of sea floor, crosses 500 islands and consists of 900 smaller reefs.
Fire ants form floating islands or towers 30 ants high with 10's of thousands of ants in them, entirely using simple self-organization rules - source
Minnie Vautrin, an American missionary who sheltered thousands of Chinese women during the Japanese occupation of Nanking. She helped more than 10,000 Chinese women find safety. In her diary, she wrote: "Had I ten perfect lives, I would give them all to China". - source
The Supernova of 1987 , SN 1987A , released about 99% of its energy as neutrinos, 10^58 neutrinos estimated (trillion trillion trillion trillion thousand million)...But only 25 were detected on Earth !
A California Lottery $3 million Big Spin winner had her prize reduced to $10 thousand when the ball bounced out of its position when she and her family jumped up and down on the stage. - source
Guy Martin, best known for his motorcycle racing (17 podiums at Isle of Man TT's), over 1 million book sales, multiple Guinness world record holder and who has raised 10's of thousands of pounds for charity; still works as a lorry mechanic doing servicing and MOT work for a haulage company.
Scientists have estimated the number of stars in the observable universe to be "70 thousand million, million, million." However, if you count all the molecules in drops of water, it takes only 10 drops for the number of H2O molecules to equal the number of stars in the sky.
Helium compounds actually exist. They were only discovered in the last 50 years, and are only stable at pressures hundreds of thousands of times greater than atmospheric pressure. For example, Na2He, a compound of helium and sodium, is stable at 113 gigapascals (1.115*10^6 atm).
About the China National Highway 110 traffic jam; a massive traffic jam that slowed down thousands of vehicles for more than 100 km and lasted for more than 10 days. Drivers were able to move their vehicles only 1 km per day and some drivers were stuck in the traffic jam for 5 days.
In 2014, Amex offered a $10 credit for purchases. People were creating hundreds of authorized users on their accounts and getting thousands in credits
WWII revolutionized the softcover book when millions were mass-produced to reduce the stress and boredom of hundreds of thousands of soldiers overseas. Between 1943 and 1947, over 123 million softcover books had been made and by the end of the war softcovers were outselling hardcovers by 10%.
