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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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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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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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Cellophane is not made of plastic. It is made from a plant fiber, cellulose, which has been shredded and aged.
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