Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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