The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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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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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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