One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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