Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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