Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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