If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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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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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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