July bonus - Fun scientific facts

Dodi and Conor welcome colleague Kaycee Palumbo for the Discovery Matters special of "Did you know?"

Sources: 

• Drugged-out hallucinating zombie cicadas 
• Zombie ants
• 30 000-year-old fruit in Siberian permafrost
• 50 interesting facts about Biotechnology
• The human genome - about 99.9% of human DNA is the same. It is the other 0.1% that codes for all of the differences that make each person unique.
• The length of the human DNA compared to the world - each cell contains about 2m worth of DNA, if you stretch it end to end, It would measure up to be twice the diameter of the solar system
• Small water pools in Mexico can show us the early seas/life on earth
• How gut bacteria influence us.

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