Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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One 75-watt bulb gives more light than three 25-watt bulbs.
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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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