Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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