Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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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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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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