Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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.
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