One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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