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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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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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    Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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    Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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    4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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    The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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