Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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