Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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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 gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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