Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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Nuclear power prevented an average of over 1.8 million deaths between 1971-2009 as a result of lower air pollution from reduced coal usage according to NASA.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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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