The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
67
The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
51
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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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.
41
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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