When you walk down a steep hill, the pressure on your knees is equal to three times your body weight.
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Scientists concluded that the chicken came first, not the egg, because the protein which makes the egg shells is only produced by hens.
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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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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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Kissing actually has the biological purpose of passing on biological information and chemical signals to assess mating possibilities and status.
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The idea of left brain (logical) and right brain (creative) has no basis in neuroscience and is in fact a myth.
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Termites are being researched as a possible renewable energy source as they can produce up to 2 litres of hydrogen from ingesting a single sheet of paper, making them one of the planet’s most efficient bioreactors.
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MIT has developed a camera that captures the speed of light at a trillion frames per second.
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