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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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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Pet dogs and elephants are the only animals that seem to instinctively understand human gesture.
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If you have 1 billion dollars and spend $1,000 every day, it would take you 2,740 years to go broke.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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