The smell of freshly cut grass is actually a plant distress call.
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Stephen Hawking once tried to find potential time travellers by throwing a party and only sending out invitations after the party.
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Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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There is a surgical implant being developed that will give you an orgasm at the touch of a button.
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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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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