The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
101
Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
39
Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
9
In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
17
Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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