One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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