In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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