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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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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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