Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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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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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
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