For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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