Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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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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