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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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