Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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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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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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