Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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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 weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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