Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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