One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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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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