The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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