One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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