Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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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