In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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In 1999, Harvard physicist Lene Hau was able to slow down light to 17 meters per second and in 2001, was able to stop light completely.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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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