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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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