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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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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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 force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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