Sunflowers can be used to clean up radioactive waste.
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Each day, more than $40 Trillion Dollars changes hands worldwide.
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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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Every year around 1 billion Valentine cards are sent. After Christmas it's a single largest seasonal card-sending occasion.
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A typical lead pencil can draw a line that is 35 miles long.
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Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
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In 1997, a survey reported that 12% of Americans think that Joan of Arc was Noah's wife.
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‘Tree shaping’ is the art of growing trees and roots into things like bridges, chairs, “people trees”, ladders, fences, jungle gyms, tunnels, and, theoretically, could even be used to grow homes.
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