No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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