Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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