The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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