Out of all the senses, smell is most closely linked to memory.
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Iron weighs more after it rusts.
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A single cup of gasoline, when ignited, has the same explosive power as five sticks of dynamite.
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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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There are more than 270 people cryogenically frozen in the hope that one day the technology will exist that can revive them and extend their lives.
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All Humans Are 99.9% Genetically Identical and 98.4% of human genes are the same as the genes of a chimpanzee.
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Every day, plants convert sunlight into energy equivalent to six times the entire power consumption of human civilization.
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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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