The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
155
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
42
A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15
Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
41
The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
75
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.
15