The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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