Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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