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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More books are written, published and sold per person per year in Iceland than anywhere else on the planet. One in ten Icelanders will become a published author in their lifetime.
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In 1987, a Chicago TV station had its broadcast interrupted by a pirate signal that shows a man in a Max Headroom mask mumbling and being spanked with a fly swatter. Despite investigations by the FCC and FBI, this became the only known incident in which a hacker interrupted a major TV broadcast without getting caught.
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In Montreal, there's a bus stop with swings that play musical notes when you swing on them.
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Honeypot ants are a unique insect that use their own bodies as living storage pots of honey.
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While pumpkins are typically orange, they can also be green, white, red, gray, and even blue.
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There are glasses which allow a red-green color-blind person to see colors the way everyone else does.
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