Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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