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• A human eye will blink over 4 million times in a year.
• A hurricane will release more energy in 10 minutes than 100% of the world's nuclear weapons.
• Almost 100% of the Oxygen in the Earth's atmosphere was produced by living organisms.
• Aluminum used to have a higher value than gold.
• An average human adult will have about 1/2 of a pound of salt.
• "It can take plastic about 50,000 years to decompose."
• It takes about 100 pounds of water to make 1 pound of food.
• J is the only letter that is not in the Periodic Table.
• Sound travels much faster through a metal than air.
• The average ice berg weighs about 20 million tons.
• The earth gets about 6000 lightning strikes per minute.
• The hardest substance known to man is diamond.
• The only metal that is a liquid at room temperature is Mercury.
• Water grows by about 9% when it freezes into ice.

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