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    Forensic scientists can determine a person's sex, age, and race by examining a single strand of hair.
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    There are more atoms in one teaspoon of water than there are teaspoons of water in the Atlantic Ocean.
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    The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
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    Why Do Old Books Have a Distinct Smell?
    The reason why old books have such a distinct smell is because hundreds of organic compounds in the pages break down over time and release chemicals that smell like almond, vanilla, and grass.
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    The average temperature at 40,000 feet above sea level is -60 F.
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    Neanderthal man had a brain capacity 100cc larger than modern man's.
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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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    A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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