The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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