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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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