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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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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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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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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