One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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