The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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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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Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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