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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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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