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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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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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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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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