In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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