Some toothpastes and deodorants contain the same chemicals found in antifreeze.
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Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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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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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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