One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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