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    The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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    The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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    Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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    The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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    If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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    A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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