One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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.
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