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... that endemics along the wildlife of Morocco include more than six hundred species of vascular plants and a single species of bird?
... that an extract of Alchemilla diademata, a plant endemic to Lebanon, shows antimicrobial activity against Staphylococcus aureus?
... that more than 5,000 hen fleas were recorded from the nest of a coal tit?

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... that the p19 protein (dimer pictured) evolved in an arms race between plants and viruses?
...that there are about a million nephrons in a human kidney?
... that the semi-aquatic grasshopper Cornops aquaticum is being trialled in South Africa as a biological control agent for the invasive water hyacinth?

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... that one of the smallest fish, the Philippine goby, can only grow between 1 and 1.5 cm?
...that the largest flower, Rafflesia has a very foul odor?
... that mesoporous silica nanoparticles are prepared by the Stöber process and are used in preparing biosensors and delivering medications to within cellular structures?

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... that seeds of the fossil fruit Suciacarpa have fossil fungi inside them?
... that the fossil ant genus Agastomyrma was described from a single queen, and males of the fossil ant Proceratium eocenicum have a hair fringe?
... that less than 50 years after being discovered, Heterelmis stephani is now presumed extinct?
... that in 1981 Bobbi Campbell became the first person to publicly identify as a person living with HIV/AIDS?

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