Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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More than 10% of the world's salt is used to de-ice American roads.
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The search engine Google got its name from the word 'googol', which refers to the number one with a hundred zeros after it.
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Babies are born without knee caps.
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The "Cobra Effect" is where a solution for a problem actually makes the problem worse.
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Group "brainstorming" makes each individual in the group less creative and doesn't work as efficiently as the same number of people working alone and then later pooling their ideas.
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Bullet proof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers were all invented by women.
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A sneeze travels out your mouth at over 100 m.p.h.!
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