Did You Know?
- The average woman uses about a dozen personal care products a day, containing 168 chemicals in total.
- 99.9% of human DNA is the same - we are more alike than you think! The other 0.1% is what makes us unique.
- There is enough DNA in the average person's body to stretch from the sun to Pluto and back - 17 times.
- How your skin ages is 90% within your control - genetics don’t determine how your skin ages, instead, the sun, pollution and smoking have the greatest impacts on your aging.
- An individual blood cell takes about 60 seconds to make a complete circuit of the body.
- Industrial biotechnology has been around since humans began mass-producing beer 10,000 years ago.
- Female physicist and chemist Marie Curie was the first person to win two Nobel Prizes for Science.
- Engineer Mary Anderson invented the windshield wiper in 1903, years before Henry Ford industrialized automobile production.
- The first "computer program" was designed by a famous poet's daughter, Ada Lovelace, in 1843. It predicted the development of computer software, artificial intelligence and computer music.
- The word “engineer” comes from a Latin word meaning 'cleverness'.
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