If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
67
For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
45
Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
304
No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
107
The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
7
The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
65
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.
6
Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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