The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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