The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
73
Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
15
Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
9
Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
50
4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
27
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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