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Carrots Were Originally Purple and Yellow, Not Orange
Until the 16th century, almost all cultivated carrots were deep purple, bright yellow, or pale white, until Dutch farmers bred the orange variety.
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Carrots Were Originally Purple and Yellow, Not Orange
Until the 16th century, almost all cultivated carrots were deep purple, bright yellow, or pale white, until Dutch farmers bred the orange variety.
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A Battery at Oxford University Has Been Ringing a Bell Non-Stop for 184 Years
Inside the Clarendon Laboratory at Oxford, a mysterious dry-pile battery has been quietly ringing two small bells since 1840 without a single recharge.
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Octopuses Have Three Hearts and Copper-Based Blue Blood
An octopus relies on three separate hearts to pump copper-rich, sky-blue blood through its cold ocean habitat.
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