Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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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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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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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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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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