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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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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