If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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