Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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