Your brain is 80% water.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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