In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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