Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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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 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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