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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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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