The pea aphid insect explodes itself thereby sacrificing its life to protect its relatives from predators.
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A couple that were out walking on their property in Sierra Nevada discovered a canister containing $10 million in gold coins.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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According to official documents, Luo Meizhen was born in 1885, which would make her 127 years old when she died in 2013 and the oldest person ever to have lived.
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A fall of 30 feet can be survived by most cats.
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A koi fish, named "Hanako", was owned by several individuals over many years and lived to be 226 years old, dying in 1977.
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