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Bees can recognize and remember individual human faces

By BeckhamLangford

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A sneeze can leave your nose faster than 100 miles per hour

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The human eye can distinguish about 10 million colors

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Scientists traced the energy crash of aging cells to a single fading molecule in their membranes

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The largest living thing on Earth is a honey fungus in Oregon spreading across nearly 4 square miles

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A tapeworm that grows cancer-like liver cysts turned up in 37 of 100 Seattle-area coyotes

By BeckhamLangford

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The human eye can detect a single particle of light in total darkness

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Thirteen years of DNA from 600 Alaskan belugas revealed the hidden family structure of the Arctic whales

By BeckhamLangford

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An octopus has three hearts and blue blood

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Scientists turned rice into a material that hardens against a hard hit but stays soft to a gentle touch

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Tardigrades can survive being frozen, boiled and even exposed to the vacuum of space

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Oxygen is the most abundant element in your body by weight

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Homing pigeons steer by a magnetic compass built from iron-packed immune cells in their liver

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A sneeze can rocket out of your nose at around 100 miles per hour

By BeckhamLangford

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Dust blown off the Sahara drifts across the Atlantic and fertilizes the Amazon rainforest

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An octopus learned to use a mirror to find food hidden behind it, a skill never seen outside vertebrates

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The wood frog can freeze nearly solid all winter and thaw back to life in spring

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A teaspoon of soil holds more living microbes than there are people on Earth

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Bone is, ounce for ounce, stronger than steel yet far lighter

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A six-week Antarctic expedition hauled back the sea squirt whose microbe attacks melanoma

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