A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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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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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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