Random Facts from What If by Randall Munroe 🌱

  • Earth’s tides and the moon is getting farther away
  • Oxygen used to be toxic and then blue-green algae released it into the atmosphere killing all life but allowing us to evolve and live:
    • great oxidation event
  • What is plasma- electroncs are free and nuclei and just swimming around freely

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