Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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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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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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One gallon of used motor oil can ruin approximately one million gallons of fresh water!
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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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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