Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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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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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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