Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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