At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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