The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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