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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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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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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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 at the Zhejiang University in China have developed an ultra-light material known as carbon aerogel.
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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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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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