The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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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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