The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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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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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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