The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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Each day, up to 150 species of life become extinct.
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