According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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