When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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