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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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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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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The storage capacity of human brain exceeds 4 Terrabytes.
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The sun is 330,330 times larger than the earth.
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A cubic yard of air weighs about 2 pounds at sea level.
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The banana plant cannot reproduce itself. It can be propagated only by the hand of man.
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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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