Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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