One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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