The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Oak trees produce 2,200 acorns in a season, but each acorn only has a 1 in 10,000 chance of becoming an oak tree.
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One barrel of petroleum holds 42 gallons.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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Pure water (H2O) does not conduct electricity on its own.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Your brain is 80% water.
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