A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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