Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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