Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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