A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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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.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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