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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Some monks can increase their body temperature so much they can dry soaking sheets in a freezing room!
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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There are so many kinds of apples that if you ate a new one everyday, it would take over 20 years to try them all.
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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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There is a persistent storm in Venezuela that produces lightning 140 to 160 nights a year, 10 hours per day and up to 280 times per hour and has been going since at least the 16th century.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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