Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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