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    Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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    A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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    For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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    Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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    Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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