One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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