Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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