The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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4.5 pounds of sunlight strike the Earth each day.
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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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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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Scientists are working on a portable spray-on-skin that can heal severe wounds in just a few minutes.The spray mainly contains important proteins that can reprogram the injured cells to become stem cells, and back to young uniformed skin cells. So far they were able to accelerate healing process from 12 weeks to 21 days with a similar approach.
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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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Columbia University has developed an artificial tree that passively soaks up carbon dioxide from the air using "leaves" that are 1,000 times more efficient than true leaves that use photosynthesis.
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