Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
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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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There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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The weight of a carat (200 milligrams), standard unit of measurement for gemstones, is based on the weight of the carob seed.
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The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
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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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