The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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