Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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