If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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.
6
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
146
Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
50
Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
46
0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
310
At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
55