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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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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