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    When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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    Bioluminescent Plants
    Bioluminescent Plants
    The world's first genetically-engineered bioluminescent (glow-in-the-dark) house plants have been created and could eventually be used as a functional light source.
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    Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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    Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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    Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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    German chemists made a replica of a trophy the size of one molecule.
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    The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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