One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
71
Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
14
The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
33
A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
66
If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
114
Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
312
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.
10
Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
71