Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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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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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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