If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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