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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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