Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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