Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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