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A hummingbird is the only bird that can fly backward

Sharks have no bones at all; their skeletons are built entirely of cartilage

An octopus can taste whatever it touches through the suckers on its arms

The human brain runs on roughly 86 billion neurons

Your body holds more bacterial cells than human ones

A genomic test spared two-thirds of high-risk breast-cancer patients from chemotherapy in a major trial

Earth’s days are slowly getting longer as the Moon tugs on the tides

The Sun looks white, not yellow, once you leave Earth’s atmosphere

Saturn’s moon Titan has rivers and seas filled with liquid methane

Jupiter’s Great Red Spot is a single storm wider than the whole Earth

The Moon drifts about 3.8 centimeters farther from Earth every year

Mercury hides water ice inside polar craters the Sun never reaches

NASA’s Bennu samples also held a gum-like material and dust forged in exploding stars

Nine weeks of a single drug before surgery left bowel-cancer patients cancer-free three years later

Antarctica is the largest desert on Earth, drier than the Sahara

A sea squirt pulled from Antarctic waters carries a bacterium that kills melanoma cells

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