Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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