4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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