Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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