A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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