Plato's cave allegory describes prisoners who mistake shadows on a wall for reality.

A fire tornado is a spinning column of fire — they can reach 1,600°C and heights of over 100 meters.

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Titan arum, the corpse flower, has the largest unbranched inflorescence (flower cluster) of any plant.

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Lightning can travel from the ground up into clouds.

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Altruism challenges purely self-interested models of human nature.

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Some trees can communicate with each other using underground fungal networks.

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Your lifetime odds of being struck by lightning are about 1 in 15,000.

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The most tornadoes in a single day occurred on April 27, 2011 — 218 twisters struck the southeastern US.

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Storm surges are often responsible for hurricane-related flooding.

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