The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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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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