For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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