Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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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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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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