The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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