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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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