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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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 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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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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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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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