Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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