The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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