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 fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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