Airports that are at higher altitudes require a longer airstrip due to lower air density.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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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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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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