One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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