Scientists are excavating the ruins of a major civilization which pre-dates both the pyramids and Stonehenge by over 7,000 years. In 15 years, they have uncovered only about 5% of the site.
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Broccoli is ‘man-made’ through the breeding of different cabbage crops.
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Some lizards, in which the tail is a major storage organ for accumulating reserves, will return to a dropped tail after the threat has passed, and will eat it to recover part of the sacrificed supplies.
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In 2012, as phone booths become increasingly obsolete because of mobile phones, a Japanese artist has turned several booths in Osaka into aquariums.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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The town of Villa Las Estrellas in Antarctica is the most remote town on Earth, and there's only three computers with internet access!
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Denmark has twice as many pigs as there are people.
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