Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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