At room temperature, the average air molecule travels at the speed of a rifle bullet.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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According to scientists, the color of the cup that we're drinking from can alter our perception of the actual taste of the drink.
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