Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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