The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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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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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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