Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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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.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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