Micro-organisms have been brought back to life after being frozen in perma-frost for three million years.

One of the reasons marijuana is illegal today because cotton growers in the 30s lobbied against hemp farmers -- they saw it as competition. It is not chemically addictive as is nicotine, alcohol, or caffeine.

Antarctica is the only land on our planet that is not owned by any country.

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