Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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