The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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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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