Sharks are older than trees
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All the planets in the solar system can fit between the earth and the moon
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Toads swallow food with their eyes. When they snag some food into their mouth they close their eyelids, and their eyes go inside and help push food down the throat before coming back up to the front of the head.
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Time derivatives!
- Rate of change in position is called velocity
- Rate of change in velocity is called acceleration
- Rate of change in acceleration is called jerk
- Rate of change in jerk is called snap
- Rate of change in snap is called crackle
- Rate of change in crackle is called pop
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Red grapefruits were originally created by planting yellow grapefruit near a radioactive source with the express purpose of creating mutations in the plant.
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Something like a fifteenth of all humans who have ever lived are alive today.
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There's 10⁹ living cells in a gram of surface soil, and in 20 km depth that reduces to 10⁶ cells per gram, but they're still alive and actively metabolizing down there! eating rock, mmhm tasty rock oh yeah! :p
they have cell turnover rates of hundreds of years though, so they age very slowly and multiply very slowly due to energy shortage.
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There are more hydrogen atoms in a single molecule of water than there are stars in the solar system.
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If you took all the DNA from every cell of one person and laid it in a straight line they would die
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Fundamentally everything and everyone, even nothing, is made of the same fields of invisible...stuff. We can measure them in very accurate detail. We are all connected. We are all ripples and waves in those fields. Everything is. If only you could see the entire spectrum of light, you would see one of those fields.
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