Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Your brain is 80% water.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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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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