Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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