- Bamboo is the fastest-growing woody plant in the world; it can grow 35 inches in a single day.
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- Ginkgo (Ginkgo biloba) is one of the oldest living tree species, it dates back to about 250 million years ago.
- Your nose can remember 50,000 different scents.
- There are 100,000 miles of blood vessels in an adult human body.
- When awake, the human brain produces enough electricity to power a small light bulb.
- If the human eye was a digital camera it would have 576 megapixels.
- Your brain uses 20% of the total oxygen and blood in your body.
- If uncoiled, the DNA in all the cells in your body would stretch 10 billion miles, from here to Pluto and back.