Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
38
Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
75
Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
101
Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
16
A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
7
One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
50
The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
155