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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Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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.
10
The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
57
The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
65
The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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