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French poet Arthur Rimbaud wrote all of his poetry as a teenager. He then decided to give up creative writing altogether aged 19. Despite being so young, he produced some of the best poetry of the 19th century.

Lightning is 5 times hotter than the sun. Lighting can reach temperatures of 30,000 kelvins (53,540 degrees Fahrenheit). Compare that to the surface of the sun, 6,000 kelvins (10,340 degrees Fahrenheit).

Many people have difficulties grasping exponential growth and its implications can be quite overwhelming. The current world record in paper folding is twelve times... a sheet of paper folded in half 103 times would be as thick as the entire observable universe!