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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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