If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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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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