The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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