The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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