Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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