Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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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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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 hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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