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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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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A lump of pure gold the size of a matchbox can be flattened into a sheet the size of a tennis court.
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The oldest stone tools found are dated from 2.7 - 2.9 million years ago. The species that made these tools is unknown.
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