A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
57
Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
146
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.
41
For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
45
A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
7
German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
68
A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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