Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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