A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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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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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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