One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every 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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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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