Quirky Science Facts!

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According to Business Software Alliance, about 95% of computers in China use pirated sotware!

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Horseshoe crabs, an ancient arthropod, are harvested for their anti-bacterial blood and then returned to the ocean...

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17th century astronomer Johannes Kepler is accused of never having taken a bath in his life!

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Researchers, trying to cure the common cold, first synthesized LSD-25 in 1938

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a tiny worm called *Caenorhabditis elegans* are noted for having exactly 959 cells!

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Originally Posted by Jay-qu

There are as many numbers in the interval [0,1] as in the interval [1,infinity]

And there are exactly as many rationals as integers. Not a whiff more.

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The Tomato was the first Genetically-engineered food to go on sale in 1994

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Chanel No. 5, the trend setting perfume, was the first to use synthetic molecules to enhance its "floral notes".

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Originally Posted by Racoon

Chanel No. 5, the trend setting perfume, was the first to use synthetic molecules to enhance its "floral notes".

so what does that mean?>

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Originally Posted by Racoon

a tiny worm called *Caenorhabditis elegans* are noted for having exactly 959 cells!

Not exactly.

"the 959 somatic cells, and a variable number of germ cells, of the adult worm"

from: http://users.rcn.com/jkimball.ma.ult...n.elegans.html