Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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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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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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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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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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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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