One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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According to studies, men change their minds two to three times more often than women.
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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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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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