The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Your brain is 80% water.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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