Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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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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