Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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 zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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