Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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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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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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