The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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