0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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