If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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