In a month, a fingernail grows an eighth of an inch.

Urine from men's public urinals was sold as a commodity in Ancient Rome. It was used as a dye and for making clothes hard.

Around three quarters of the increase in CO2 levels from human activity over the last 20 years is from the burning of fossil fuels. The rest is made up largely of land use changes such as deforestation.

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