The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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