The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
16
In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
16
Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
50
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
9
The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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