The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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