Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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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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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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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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