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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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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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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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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Stannous fluoride, which is the cavity fighter found in toothpaste is made from recycled tin.
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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Galalith is a type of plastic that can be made from milk. It is odourless, insoluble in water, biodegradable, anti-allergenic, antistatic, and virtually non-flammable.
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