Due to the deforestation of the forests in North China, over one million tons of sands blows into Beijing from the Gobi desert. It sometimes causes the sky to turn yellow.

The Sears Tower consists of nine framed tubes, which connects nine skyscrapers as one building.

One ragweed plant can release as many as a million grains of pollen in one day.

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