Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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