Science and Technology

Bizarre Fact #121:
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Compact discs read from the inside to the outside edge, the reverse of how a record works.

Bizarre Fact #122:
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Dating back to the 1600's, thermometers were filled with Brandy instead of mercury.

Bizarre Fact #123:
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Dirty snow melts faster than clean.

Bizarre Fact #124:
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Dissolved salt makes up 3.5 percent of the oceans.

Bizarre Fact #125:
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Earth's atmosphere is, proportionally, thinner than the skin of an apple.

Bizarre Fact #126:
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ENIAC, the first electronic computer, appeared 50 years ago. The original ENIAC was about 80 feet long, weighed 30 tons, had 17,000 tubes. By comparison, a desktop computer today can store a million times more information than an ENIAC, and 50,000 times faster.

Bizarre Fact #127:
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Ethernet is a registered trademark of Xerox, Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T.

Bizarre Fact #128:
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Every cubic mile of seawater holds over 150 million tons of minerals.

Bizarre Fact #129:
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Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.

Bizarre Fact #130:
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Every year about 98% of atoms in your body are replaced.