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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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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