Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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