Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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