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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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