The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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