The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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