Ice storms coat everything in ice up to several centimeters thick — toppling trees, power lines, and buildings.

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

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Lightning can heat air hotter than the surface of the Sun.

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Altruism challenges purely self-interested models of human nature.

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You are more likely to be struck by lightning than attacked by a shark.

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Seed banks like the Svalbard Global Seed Vault preserve the genetic diversity of the world's crops.

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

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A waterspout is a tornado over water — they can reach heights of 5 km and travel for over an hour.

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The sandbox tree (Hura crepitans) explodes when ripe, flinging seeds up to 45 meters at over 70 km/h.

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