The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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