The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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