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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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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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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