Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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German scientists claim to have evidence that suggests that our universe may exist inside of a computer simulated Matrix.
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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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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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