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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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    Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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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 single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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