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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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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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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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    Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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    No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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    Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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