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Polarized sunglasses cut glare from horizontal surfaces
Nuclear fission of 1 kg of uranium-235 releases huge energy
Terminal velocity for a skydiver is ~200 km/h
White light is a mix of many wavelengths
The Casimir effect pulls two metal plates together in a vacuum
Muon particles created in the atmosphere reach Earth
A lightning flash heats air to ~30,000°C
Fermions cannot share the same quantum state
Entropy of a closed system never decreases
A Fermi paradox asks: where is everybody?
Ice is less dense than liquid water
Sound cannot travel through outer space
Pressure under 10 meters of water roughly doubles
Your microwave oven uses ~2.45 GHz radio waves
Lasers can cool atoms to near absolute zero
A rainbow’s arc is always about 42° from the anti-solar point
Ultrasound can shatter kidney stones
The Planck length is about 1.6 × 10⁻³⁵ meters
Escape velocity from Earth is about 11.2 km/s
A photon has zero rest mass
Earth’s gravity pulls at about 9.8 m/s²
T. rex bit with a force of over 35,000 newtons
Some metals catch fire in water
A lightning bolt carries about 1 billion joules of energy
The periodic table was predicted before many elements existed

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