Tell me something I don't know. (asked to Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash)

Here’s one: **sharks are older than trees.** Sharks have been around for roughly **450 million years**, while the earliest tree-like plants appeared about **350 million years ago**. So sharks were swimming in the oceans long before forests existed on land.

Here’s a fact that’s obscure but oddly delightful: **Bananas are slightly radioactive.** They contain potassium, and a small fraction of naturally occurring potassium is radioactive potassium-40. You’d need to eat around 10 million bananas at once to get a dangerous dose, but the “banana equivalent dose” is sometimes used as a playful way to explain radiation exposure in everyday life.

There are about **3 trillion trees** on Earth — which is likely more than the estimated **100–400 billion stars** in the Milky Way.

Qwen: Qwen3.8 Flash — Tell me something I don't know.

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