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*Question: What is one horsepower? *Answer: One horsepower is the amount of energy it takes to drag a horse 500 feet in one second. *You can listen to thunder after lightening and tell how close you came to getting hit. If you don't hear it you got hit, so never mind. *Talc is found on rocks and on babies. *The law of gravity says no fair jumping up without coming back down. *When they broke open molecules, they found they were only stuffed with atoms. But when they broke open atoms, they found them stuffed with explosions. *When people run around and around in circles we say they are crazy. When planets do it we say they are orbiting. *Rainbows are just to look at, not to really understand. *While the earth seems to be knowingly keeping its distance from the sun, it is really only centrificating. *Someday we may discover how to make magnets that can point in any direction. *South America has cold summers and hot winters, but somehow they still manage. *Most books now say our sun is a star. But it still knows how to change back into a sun in the daytime. *Water freezes at 32 degrees and boils at 212 degrees. There are 180 degrees between freezing and boiling because there are 180 degrees between north and south. *A vibration is a motion that cannot make up its mind which way it wants to go. *There are 26 vitamins in all, but some of the letters are yet to be discovered. Finding them all means living forever. *There is a tremendous weight pushing down on the center of the Earth because of so much population stomping around up there these days. *Lime is a green-tasting rock. *Many dead animals in the past changed to fossils while others preferred to be oil. *Genetics explain why you look like your father and if you don't why you should. *Vacuums are nothings. We only mention them to let them know we know they're there. *Some oxygen molecules help fires burn while others help make water, so sometimes it's brother against brother. *Some people can tell what time it is by looking at the sun. But I have never been able to make out the numbers. *We say the cause of perfume disappearing is evaporation. Evaporation gets blamed for a lot of things people forget to put the top on. *To most people solutions mean finding the answers. But to chemists solutions are things that are still all mixed up. *In looking at a drop of water under a microscope, we find there are twice as many H's as O's. *Clouds are high flying fogs. *I am not sure how clouds get formed. But the clouds know how to do it, and that is the important thing. *Clouds just keep circling the earth around and around. And around. There is not much else to do. *Water vapor gets together in a cloud. When it is big enough to be called a drop, it does. *Humidity is the experience of looking for air and finding water. *We keep track of the humidity in the air so we won't drown when we breathe. *Rain is often known as soft water, oppositely known as hail. *Rain is saved up in cloud banks. *In some rocks you can find the fossil footprints of fishes. *Cyanide is so poisonous that one drop of it on a dogs tongue will kill the strongest man. *A blizzard is when it snows sideways. *A hurricane is a breeze of a bigly size. *A monsoon is a French gentleman. *Thunder is a rich source of loudness. *Isotherms and isobars are even more important than their names sound. *It is so hot in some places that the people there have to live in other places. *The wind is like the air, only pushier.
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