One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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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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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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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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