The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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