Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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