While burn damage is normally patched with pieces of excess skin from a person's own body, this does not work if the whole face needs to be covered -- the skin of the entire back is less than half of what would be needed to cover the full face and scalp, Siemionow said.

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If drivers of premium-required cars try to burn regular gas, they could damage their engine due to high exhaust-gas temperatures and knocking.

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Do you let it burn? or build a fire break around it to contain the damage?

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According to the U.S. National Aeronautics and Space Administration, meteoroids smaller than 25 meters usually burn up as they streak through the atmosphere, causing little or no damage.

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