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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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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