The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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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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For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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