Your brain is 80% water.
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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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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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 weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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