One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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 storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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