Things you won't unlearn
The kind of fact you immediately text to a friend.
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No identical snowflake has ever fallen to Earth
The math behind nature's impossibility.
- 02
The million-pound object floating over your head
The average white fluffy cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds, roughly the same as 100 school buses.
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The Underground Social Network of Trees
Trees communicate through a massive underground 'Wood Wide Web' of fungi that trades nutrients and warnings.
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The Forest That is Actually Just One Tree
In Utah, there is a forest of 47,000 trees that all share the exact same DNA and root system.
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The Cloud That Looks Like a Giant Rolling Pipe
A rare 600-mile long tube-shaped cloud regularly rolls across the Australian sky.
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The Cloud That Looks Like a Giant Rolling Pipe
A rare 600-mile long tube-shaped cloud regularly rolls across the Australian sky.
The Forest That is Actually Just One Tree
In Utah, there is a forest of 47,000 trees that all share the exact same DNA and root system.
The million-pound object floating over your head
The average white fluffy cloud weighs about 1.1 million pounds, roughly the same as 100 school buses.
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