The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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