At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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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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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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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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