The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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