Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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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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