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If you were on the moon Titan, because of the low gravity and thick atmosphere, you could strap wings to your arms and flap them to fly, barring all those environmental hazards there.

#titan-wings

Macadamia nuts are the only Australian native plant to become a major global food crop.

#macadamias

Our favorite economics joke: Two academic economists are walking across campus, and one of them tells the other: "hey that's a $20 on the ground", the other responds: "no, it can't be, or else someone would have picked it up", and they keep walking. (it is a nerdy joke about the efficient market hypothesis)

#twenty-dollars

You have a copy of each chromosome from your parents, giving you two copies of every chromosome, but some plants have six copies of every chromosome. Weird, eh?

human2potato4bread wheat6some cultivated strawberries8
Chromosome copies per species: human 2, potato 4, bread wheat 6, some cultivated strawberries 8.
#six-copies

Elephants get cancer far less often than an animal that size should. One reason: about twenty copies of the TP53 tumour-suppressor gene. You get one. We think that's a little unfair, but mostly cool.

#elephants

If you believe in the universe splitting on every possibility, there's a version of you that's also waiting on the same progress bar while eating a sandwich.

#sandwich