Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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