Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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