Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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