Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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