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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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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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