Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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