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    Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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    Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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    Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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    German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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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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    Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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