The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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