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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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Scientists at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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