Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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