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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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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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 banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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