-A calorie is the amount of energy required to heat 1 gram of water by 1ºC.

-A nutritional Calorie is actually equivalent to 1000 calories (a kilocalorie).

-A 100 Calorie snack pack thus has enough stored energy to heat 1 liter of water from its freezing point to its boiling point.

-The airplane is not the safest vehicle available for travel.

-The safest vehicle available for travel is, in fact, the elevator.

-Not only can normal matter and antimatter not coexist, they are electromagnetically attracted to one another, thus ensuring the annihilation of both.

-0.25 grams of antimatter has been estimated to have about 10 kilotons of explosive power.

-The energy required to manufacture 0.25 grams of antimatter would be far more than would be released when the antimatter meets normal matter.

-The 'mercury' in most thermometers is actually alcohol.

-A drop in air pressure (as measured by a barometer) is usually an indication that bad weather is on its way to your area.

-When they were first discovered on Mt. Everest, fossils were used as proof of the Great Flood.

-All living organic matter is, courtesy of Carbon-14, ever so slightly radioactive.

-The fastest object ever measured in the universe was a cosmic ray.

-If that cosmic ray had raced a beam of light across all 100,000 lightyears of the Milky Way galaxy's diameter, it would have lost by a mere 6 inches.

-A theory states that if a black hole were to become massive enough, it would pinch off from the space-time continuum of our universe (effectively vanishing from our universe entirely) and form an infant universe of its own, with its own laws of nature.

-Another theory states that this may have been how our own universe came into being.

-The theory that the Sun orbits the Earth is just as scientifically valid as the theory that the Earth orbits the Sun.


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