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    The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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    One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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    The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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    A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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