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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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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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