Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
71
Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
134
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
20
One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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