The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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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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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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