Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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