The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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