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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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    Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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    The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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    The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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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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    Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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    Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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