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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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 coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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