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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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