One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
Your brain is 80% water.
525
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16
Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
39
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
55
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
16