Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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