Pumice is the only rock that floats on water.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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Scientists are attempting to create a synthetic brain by reverse-engineering the mammalian brain down to the molecular level. A cellular human brain is predicted possible by 2023. It hopes to shed light on consciousness.
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