The Manchineel Tree is so poisonous, rainwater dripping off it’s leaves will burn your skin.
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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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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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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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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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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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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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