Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Scientists in Germany have developed a candy that doesn't cause cavities.
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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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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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