A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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