The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
65
Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
21
Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
9
It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
6
A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
15