Saturn's moon, Mimas, not only looks like the Death Star, it also has a Pac Man heat signature.
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Passengers on the Beijing subway can pay with plastic bottles.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Sergeant Stubby was the only war dog to be promoted to sergeant through combat in WWI. He saved his regiment from surprise mustard gas attacks, found and comforted the wounded, and even once caught a German spy by the seat of his pants, holding him there until American Soldiers found him.
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An artist in Iowa named Patrick Acton built a complete model of Hogwarts out of matchsticks.
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