Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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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