Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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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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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 average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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