One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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