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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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