Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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