A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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