Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 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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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light 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 Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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