Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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