Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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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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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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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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