Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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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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A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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A single speck of dust is half way in size between a subatomic particle and the Earth.
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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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