A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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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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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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