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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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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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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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