If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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