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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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It's possible to die from a broken heart; it's called Stress Cardiomyopathy.
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The 409 escalators in the London subway cover a distance every week which is approximately equivalent to several trips around the globe!
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The focusing muscles of the eyes move around 100,000 times a day. To give your leg muscles the same workout, you would need to walk 80km (50 miles) every day.
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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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If Earth's history was condensed into twenty-four hours, life would've appeared at around 4am, land plants at 10:24pm, dinosaur extinction at 11:41pm, and human history would’ve began at 11:58:43pm.
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