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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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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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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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