One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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