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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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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