Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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