The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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