A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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In Arizona, a solar wind energy tower has been proposed that would generate as much energy as the Hoover Dam.
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If you blowtorch Pepto-Bismol, you would get a hunk of metal.
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During photosynthesis, plants emit light humans can’t see, but NASA can see that light from space - and they've even made maps of it!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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