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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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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