Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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