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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0.3% of solar energy from the Sahara is enough to power the whole of Europe.
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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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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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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One ragweed plant can release as many as one billion grains of pollen!
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