The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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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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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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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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