Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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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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One third of the electricity produced on earth is used to power electric light bulbs!
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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