The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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