A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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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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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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