The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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