Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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