If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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