Nearly 50% of the world's scientists are assigned to military projects.
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Billions of neutrinos pass unnoticed through your body every second.
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Blue eyes are a genetic mutation. Before the mutation occured, all humans had brown eyes.
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In the 1950s, the US government placed beer next to an atomic bomb blast to determine if it was still drinkable. The result: in the event of a nuclear war, beer is safe to drink!
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Balsa wood is classified as a hard wood!
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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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If you are locked in a completely sealed room, you will die of carbon dioxide poisoning first before you will die of oxygen deprivation.
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