Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
21
A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15
Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
48
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.
1
If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
114
Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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