Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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