One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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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 smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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