There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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