There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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