For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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