Research indicates that plants grow healthier when they are stroked.
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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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Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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Dr.Jonas Salk, the man who came up with the cure for polio, didn’t patent the drug. This made the drug more affordable to the general public, and he lost out an an estimated $7 billion dollars for himself.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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If the chemical sodium is dropped into water it will immediately and violently explode.
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Most dust particles in your house come from dead skin.
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