Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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