At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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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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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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