Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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