Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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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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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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