The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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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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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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