The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
Hot water can freeze faster than cold water.
181
Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
50
The Earth's atmosphere weighs about 5.5 quadrillion tons.
108
Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
134
The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
18
It takes a photon 170,000 years to travel from the core of the Sun to the surface, but only 8 minutes to travel the rest of the way to Earth.
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