Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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