Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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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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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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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.
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