The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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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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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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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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