One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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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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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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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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