In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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