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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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