Your garden may be growing in worm castings

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The beautiful flourishing gardens we prize so highly are entirely grown in digested insect dirt. Nature's absolute best fertilizer is quite literally just microscopic poop.

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A teaspoon of soil teems with a billion microbes

Measuring radioactive decay to figure out how old dirt is

Since bananas are notoriously radioactive, how many would you need to aggressively eat at once to suffer a fatal radiation dose?

Saturn is so remarkably un-dense that if you could find a bathtub large enough to hold it, the entire gas giant would actually float on top of the water.

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