Your brain is 80% water.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
17
For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
34
Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
9
The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
42
Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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