Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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