Your brain is 80% water.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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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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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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