Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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