The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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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.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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