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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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 cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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