Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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