A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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