Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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