Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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