The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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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 working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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