One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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