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    Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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    Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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    Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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    Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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