A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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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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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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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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