The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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