Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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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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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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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 most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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