A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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