If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
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As of April 2010, Bill Gates had donated $36,854,000,000 in his lifetime! That's more than half of his total net worth!
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After coming across a "very sweet" homeless man from Jamaica named Michael on a night out, Londoner Jenny Baker took to Twitter, and within hours, using the hashtag #getmichaelhome, had raised thousands of pounds so that he could return home to Jamaica where he said he would be "happy again".
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Some nursing homes in Germany have fake bus stops to keep Alzheimer's patients from wandering away.
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There's a café in France which charges €7 for a coffee to rude customers and €1.40 to people who talk politely to staff.
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