Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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 average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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