Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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