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 cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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