Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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