In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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