One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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