Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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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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