Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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