When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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