Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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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 hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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