Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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