One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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