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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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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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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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