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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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