Most liquid laundry detergents are alive with living organisms that help to break down stains!
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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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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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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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