Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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