The use of emoticons affects our corresponding brain areas and can actually trigger emotions.
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No matter how cold it gets, gasoline will not freeze.
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Marie Curie, the Nobel prize winning scientist who discovered radium, died of radiation poisoning.
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Rafflesia Arnoldii is the largest flower in the world and can grow as big as an umbrella.
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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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The brain case [of Neanderthals] on the average was more than 13 percent larger than that of the average of modern man
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Nylon is made from coal and petroleum.
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The inventor of the Super Soaker squirt gun was a NASA Scientist who also helped develop the Stealth Bomber and the Galileo mission to Jupiter.
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