Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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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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