Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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