One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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