A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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