The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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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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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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