The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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