If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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