Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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