One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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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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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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