Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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