The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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