4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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