A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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