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    The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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    A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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    The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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    The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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    Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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    A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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