Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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