Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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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.
41
A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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