Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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