Your brain is 80% water.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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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 smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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