Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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