In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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