Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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