The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
Diamonds can be shattered with a hammer.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
65
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.
10
MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
20
Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
118
Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
146
The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
175