A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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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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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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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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