The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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Your brain is 80% water.
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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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