A coal power station puts 100 times more radiation into the air than a nuclear power plant producing the same amount of energy.
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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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Your brain is 80% water.
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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 idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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