A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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