The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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