Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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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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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 Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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