Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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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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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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