💡 Trivia There's a Bank That Stores More Seeds Than Money

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Deep inside a mountain on a remote Arctic island is the Svalbard Global Seed Vault, often called the world's "doomsday vault." Instead of gold or cash, it protects more than a million seed samples from crops around the world.

The vault was built to preserve agriculture in case of natural disasters, wars, or climate change. Countries send backup copies of their most important seeds for safekeeping. The facility is kept cold by both refrigeration and the Arctic permafrost. If a crop disappears somewhere on Earth, these stored seeds could help bring it back. It's one of humanity's most important insurance policies for the future.



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