For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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