The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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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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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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