One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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