Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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In the 60s, a scientist gave LSD to dolphins in an attempt to teach them English.
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The gas that gives rotten eggs their distinctive foul smell may slow ageing and block damaging chemical reactions inside cells, according to scientists in China.
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It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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