Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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