Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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