It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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