Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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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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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 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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