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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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Only about 2% of the world population has green eyes.
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Iceland has been so culturally isolated through history since the Vikings, that compared to other Scandinavian counties, people who speak Icelandic can still read the old Norsk sagas.
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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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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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