Donkeys kill more people annually than plane crashes.
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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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Mosquitoes prefer certain blood types, and people with the “O” blood type are more likely to get bitten.
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Cows as they are today never existed in the wild and were domesticated from aurochs some 10,500 years ago.
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Thinking in a foreign language makes decisions more rational.
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A third of the human population sneezes when they look at the Sun. Light can signal the ocular nerve near the sinuses and triggers a sneeze.
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Parrotfish make themselves a kind of mucus 'sleeping bag' which masks their smell from predators and keeps parasites away.
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Pluto is smaller than Russia.
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