Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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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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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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