Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
In zero gravity, a candle's flame is round and blue.
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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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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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Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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The hair of an adult man or woman can stretch 25 percent of its length without breaking.
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