Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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