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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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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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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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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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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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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