Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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