The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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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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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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The most expensive material on the planet is antimatter - worth $62.5 trillion per gram.
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