Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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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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