Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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