Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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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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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 sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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