Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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