Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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