Elephants are among the most emotional creatures in the world - they have even been known to rescue other animals, such as trapped dogs.
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‘Fracture putty’ is a material being developed that when packed in & around a bone fracture, provides full load bearing strength within days.
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Seattle is planning to build a new city park filled with hundreds of edible plants - such as fruit trees, vegetables plants, herbs, etc… Free to “anyone and everyone.” If successful, it will be the first “food forest” of the nation.
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In the Bemba tribe of southern Africa, if someone does something hurtful, they take the person to the center of the town where the entire tribe comes and surrounds them. For two days they tell him every good thing he has ever done, because they believe that every person comes into the world as good.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The Beatles wrote into their contracts for American concerts that they would not play in front of segregated audiences.
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