Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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