Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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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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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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