If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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