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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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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