The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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