Consumption of TNT turns urine amber or deep red, which people often mistake for blood.
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The little bags of netting for gas lanterns (called 'mantles') are radioactive...so much so that they will set of an alarm at a nuclear reactor.
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Until 1990, the deadly poison mercury was used in about 30% of latex paints!
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An 'aglet' is the plastic or metal tip of a shoelace.
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If you put two straws in your mouth, one inside a drink and one outside it, you won't be able to drink through either straw.
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If you yelled for 8 years, 7 months and 6 days, you would have produced enough sound energy to heat one cup of coffee.
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The world's tallest snowman was created in Bethel, Maine in 2008. It measured in at 122 feet / 1 inch and weighed 13,000,000 lbs.
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