Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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