The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Optical illusions occur when what the eyes see conflicts with what the brain expects.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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