Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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.
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