Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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