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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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