Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Cold water weighs more than hot water.
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Scientists have developed a microparticle filled with oxygen that can be injected into the blood stream, enabling us to live without breathing.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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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 brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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