Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The force of a suction cup is calculated using F=AP.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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