Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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