When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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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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Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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