At 15 years old, Jack Andraka invented a method of diagnosing pancreatic cancer, thus helping to save the lives of millions of people around the world. It is 168 times faster, 26,000 times cheaper, 400 times more sensitive, and has a 99% success rate.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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