Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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