One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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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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