Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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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 earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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