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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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