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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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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