Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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