One cubic foot of gold weighs more than 1,200 pounds!
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Indoor pollution is 10 times more toxic than outdoor pollution.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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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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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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