Because heat expands the metal, the Eiffel Tower always leans away from the sun.
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Each day is longer than the previous on by 0.00000002 seconds which is 13 seconds each century!
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The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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The bark of an older redwood tree is fireproof.
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Sound travels fifteen times faster through steel than through air.
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A 'jiffy' is an actual unit of time for 1/100th of a second!
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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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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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