Only 12,000 years ago there was a species closely related to modern humans called Homo floresiensis that had been living on an Indonesian Island. They used fire and rather advanced tools, yet were only about 3 feet tall and weighed around 25kg.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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