A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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