Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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