Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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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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