An ounce of platinum can be stretched 10,000 feet.
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Ice isn't slippery. What makes people and things slip on ice is water. A thin layer of ice melts when pressure is applied to it and it is this wet layer on top of the ice that is slippery.
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There are approximately three million shipwrecks on the ocean floor, worth billions in value and treasure.
22
Wearing yellow makes you look bigger on camera; green, smaller.
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When glass breaks, the cracks move faster than 3,000 miles per hour. To photograph the event, a camera must shoot at a millionth of a second!
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Since 1982, a radio frequency emanating from Russia has been broadcasting a buzzer-like sound and, periodically, an unknown voice reads orders, names, and numbers. No one knows where exactly it is coming from or what it means.
13
Blue light fends off drowsiness in the middle of the night, which could be useful to people who work at night.
240
It takes about 63,000 trees to make the newsprint for the average Sunday edition of The New York Times.
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