Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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