A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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