One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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