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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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