Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
9
The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
56
A ball of glass will bounce higher than a ball made of rubber.
73
For every gallon of sea water, you get more than a quarter pound of salt.
45
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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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