In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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