It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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Pollen never deteriorates. It is one of the few natural substances that lasts indefinitely.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move at speeds of up to 3,000 miles per hour.
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Déjà vu occurs when your brain tries to apply a memory of a past situation to your current one, fails, and makes you feel like it's happened.
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30 years ago, you could buy a lifetime, unlimited first-class travel pass with American Airlines for $250,000.
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We forget why we have entered a room because passing through doors creates an ‘event boundary’ causing the brain to file away what we were just thinking about.
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A fire in Australia has been burning for more than 5,000 years!
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