The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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Scientists are now able to grow 'beating' heart tissue in a lab!
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The average home creates more pollution than does the average car.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Approximately 70 percent of the earth is covered by water. Only 1 percent of this water is drinkable.
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