Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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