The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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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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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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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 average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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