If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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