Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The earth is approx. 6,588,000,000,000,000,000 tons.
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Scientists are learning from the 1700-year-old Lycurgus Cup, which changes colour thanks to nano particles.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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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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Aluminum used to be more valuable than gold!
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