Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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