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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Sound travels about 4 times faster in water than in air.
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The left ear is more responsive to words of love and emotion whispered into it than the right.
40
Sound at the right vibration can bore holes through a solid object.
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The only letter not appearing on the Periodic Table is the letter "J".
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Scientists have revived a flowering plant from a fruit stored away in permafrost by Arctic ground squirrel 32,000 years ago.
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Scientists aren't sure what color dinosaurs were.
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Oxygen, carbon, hydrogen and nitrogen make up 90% of the human body.
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