A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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