A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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.
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