Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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