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    One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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    One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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    Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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    The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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    Scientists Recreate Conversations Held Behind Soundproof Glass by Recording Vibrations on Chip Bag
    Scientists have been able to recreate conversations that were held behind a soundproof glass wall by recording the vibrations seen on a potato chip bag.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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