A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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