The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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