A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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