An Australian study found that homework is of little to no academic value to students in elementary and junior high schools.
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The oldest living person smoked cigarettes from the age of 21 to 117.
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In a year approximately 900 million trees are cut down to make the raw materials needed for American pulp mills and paper.
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The world’s smallest book, “Teeny Ted from Turnip Town”, is 100×70 micrometers in size and requires a scanning electron microscope to read, as light beams are too large.
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The chills you sometimes feel when listening to music is called "musical frisson."
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In 2003, the U.S. Government spent about $2,000,000.00 on potato research!
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Mushrooms are more closely related to humans than they are to plants.
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There are more nerve cells in the human brain than there are stars in the Milky Way.
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