Liquid TIDE laundry detergent glows under a blacklight.
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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 use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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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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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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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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