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		harsher on Feb 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Dead Sea dates grown from 2000-year-old seeds There are other species of plants whose seeds can germinate after a ridiculously long time. Nelumbo nucifera, for example. Still, it is remarkeable.

Mountain_Skies on Feb 11, 2020 [–]

Though not extinction, widespread use of birth control could be argued to have been a contributing factor in the fall of Rome.

progre on Feb 11, 2020 | [–]

Or, a territory too large to actually defend, rampant corrution and barbarian hordes?

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