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 home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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