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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Cows can sleep standing up, but they can only dream lying down.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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A cow produces around 200,000 glasses of milk in her lifetime.
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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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Mars had an oxygen-rich atmosphere around 4 billion years ago
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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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