The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
Brass doorknobs automatically disinfect themselves in about 8 hours.
18
Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
50
If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
117
For a high school science fair project, 17-year-old Michio Kaku built a particle accelerator in his parent's garage that was able to generate a magnetic field 20,000 times greater than the Earth's and produce collisions powerful enough to create antimatter.
34
A cesium atom in an atomic clock beats over nine billion times a second.
43
The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
116
Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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