If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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