Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
16
Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
46
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
Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
17
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
118
Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
41
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16