The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
33
Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
146
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
199
No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
107
For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
34
Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
89
Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
46