One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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