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The Iceman's 5,300-Year-Old Fire KitThis tinder fungus (found on Ötzi the Iceman from 3,300 BCE) was used for millennia to carry fire. Its fruiting body can be processed into material that catches sparks easily. It also produces compounds with anti-inflammatory properties.
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The Poisonous Bloom 2.4 Billion Years AgoThe geological record of the Great Oxidation Event about 2.4 billion years ago, when cyanobacteria flooded the atmosphere with oxygen. This was technically a pollution crisis that killed most life on Earth while creating conditions for complex organisms to eventually evolve.
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