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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Lurch, a Watusi bull, had the largest horns in the world.
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In Georgia, there is an airtight room called the Crypt of Civilization that was sealed in 1940. It contains numerous artefacts documenting what life was like at the time of sealing, and is scheduled to be opened in the year 8113 to show people of the future exactly what life was like.
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An unprotected human can survive up to 1.5 minutes in space with no permanent bodily damage.
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The University of Oxford (teaching since 1096) predates the Aztec empire (1428 - 1521).
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In the last 7 years, humanity has discovered 43 potentially habitable planets.
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There is a mass reservoir of water floating in space that is 100,000 times bigger than our sun and holds 140 trillion times more water than all of our oceans.
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