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@hurricanesFire hydrant patent
That the patent for the fire hydrant was lost in a fire
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@hurricanesScience fact
It takes ~108 atoms laid in a row to span the width of a human fingernail (~1 cm.) If the same number of standard wooden pencils were laid end to end, they would circumnavigate the Earth’s equator more than 47 times.
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@hurricanesHumans sense of smell
Humans can smell petrichor (that earthy smell after it rains) at lower concentrations than a shark can smell blood in water. The compound that causes the smell is called geosmin and we can detect it at around 5 parts per trillion. Likely an evolutionary thing since being able to
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