Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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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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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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