Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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