One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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