If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
199
Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
71
The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
56
The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
16
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.
304
The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
61
Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
57