The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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