For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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