Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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