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 only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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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 weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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