Paul McCartney dreamed the melody of "Yesterday" one night and immediately wrote the music the next morning. He then looked around for a month to make sure that he didn't subconsciously plagiarize it from somebody else.
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If you place a ripe banana next to a green tomato, the tomato will ripen due to the ethylene gas produced by the banana.
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Sony researchers have developed a refrigerator that only opens when you smile.
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MDIF, a New York based non-profit organisation, is planning to beam free Wi-Fi to the entire world from space.
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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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Your spit has a painkiller 6 times stronger than morphine. It contains a substance called opiorphin that is stronger than morphine.
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Macaques monkeys in Japan learned to steal purses and wallets, take out the coins, and use them to buy drinks and snacks from vending machines.
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