Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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