A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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