One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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