When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
134
Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
116
According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
12
If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
114
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.
15
A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
7