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At the height of the Apollo programme, NASA was sucking in around 4.4% of total US government spending.

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Between 50 million and 100 million animals are used in research involving animal experiments around the world.
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The 3 billion base pairs in the human genome would fit into a text file that's 3 gigabytes in size.
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Yocto, the smallest prefix in the SI system, stands for a multiplying factor of one part in a million billion billion (one septillion) parts, which is often written as 10 to the power of -24.