Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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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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