Trees go to sleep too
Other plants open up and close from day to night, and trees do something similar. Scientists measured that trees shrink by 10cm at night and regain it's height after sunrise.
Time Crystals
Something that sounds like it came straight out of Rick and Morty is apparently real. Regular crystals are repeated patterns of atoms or molecules-in space. A time crystal has a pattern like a regular one, but it flips to another one, then flips again, forever.
Genghis Khan Had a Few Children
It's well known that the Asian ruler had a large harem and that he slept with thousands of women. He had so many children that today, 8% of Asian men are direct descendants of him. That's 16 million people!
The Earth Used To Be Purple
Yep. Chlorophyll, the stuff you'll find on plants, reflects green, resulting in green plants. Earlier in Earth's history though, microbes in plants used retinal instead, which reflects red and blue, causing a purple hue.
Toasting Using Lightning
Yeah, lightning. That thing that strikes in thunderstorms. If we could harness the energy from it, a single bolt of lightning could cook 100,000 pieces of toast.
Strongest Organism Ever?
What is the strongest living thing in existence? The Rock, Shaq, Thanos? Wrong. Gonorrhea bacteria is. They can pull 100,000 times their body weight, which is equal to 22 million pounds for humans. They do that by using a substance called pili to attach to other things.
We Are All Snakes
Okay not really, but the average human does shed 40lbs of skin in their lifetime.
Antimatter Is Dangerous And Expensive
Antimatter is (obviously) the opposite of regular matter. Instead of protons, neutrons, and electrons, there are antiprotons antineutrons and antielectrons (also known as positrons). When matter and antimatter come together, you get an explosion. If a 1kg piece of antimatter crashed into Earth, the energy released would be enough to melt 220,000,000,000 pounds of granite. Don't worry, we could never afford that much antimatter, since it cost $62.5 trillion to make a gram of it.